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Alfred LandauAlfred Landau was a famous folklorist and philologist. Born in Brody in 1850, into the family of a famous rabbi, Landau studied in a gymnasium in... |
Folklorist | Brody | |
Billy WilderBilly Wilder was born Samuel Wilder to a Jewish family in Sucha Beskidzka, Austria-Hungary. He was an Austrian-born American filmmaker,... |
Filmmaker | ||
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Otto PremingerOtto Preminger was born in 1905 in Wiznitz (Vyzhnytsia), a town in west of Czernowitz, northern Bukovyna, in today's Ukraine. He was ... |
Filmmaker | |
Lee StrasbergLee Strasberg was born Israel Strassberg Budzanów, Austria-Hungary (today in Ukraine). He was an American actor, director and acting... |
Filmmaker | Budaniv | |
Leo LandauLeo Landau was a well-known stage director and actor, who appeared under the stage name Lenkhart. Born in Brody in 1878, Landau became famous... |
Director | Brody | |
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Leon SternbachLeon Sternbach was a Polish-Jewish classical philologist and Byzantinist, a professor at the Jagellonian University. Born in Drohobych, Galicia,... |
Classical philologist | Drohobych |
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Helena RubinsteinHelena Rubinstein was born in Kraków, Austria-Hungary (modern-day Poland). she was a Polish-born American business magnate. A cosmetics... |
Business owner | Kraków |
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Roald HoffmannRoald Hoffmann was born in Zolochiv Poland (now Ukraine). He is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in... |
Biochemist |
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